<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">Ed,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">I have read/browsed that book online. I felt that it is good only for learning different jargons that is put out there when geeks and sysadmins talk about security. But it fails very much to explain how to protect your system or even simply identify what services a distribution will have open.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">Yes I agree that it is very difficult to write a Linux Network Security when there are over 150 Linux Distributions, but at least the basic concept of Security should be covered in a book I read and this book fails it. </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">I would suggest couple of alternatives:</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">
<ul><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">Go to a book store, if you or your company does not own access to Online Book Library, find a nice chair and browse through 2 or 3 Security books, does not matter if they are Linux or UNIX (avoid Windows as that OS has nothing in common with Linux)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">If you own your own Linux Server, find out which services you do not need and shut it down. For even my desktop, I run http and ssh and thats about it.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">Choose a distribution which does not install all kinds of application you do not need. Good way is to create a kickstart file with the bare minimum if you are installing servers. Avoiding X is also good when installing servers.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">If this server is in your company, ask your company to purchase a good port/vulnerebility scanner and scan all your servers.</span></li></ul><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">Where I work, I get my servers scanned once before the applications are installed and once after, thus avoiding any unwanted ports or vulnerebility of apps.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">Hope this helps.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"></div><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">-GGR</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">Rajiv G Gunja</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Ed Browne <<a href="mailto:edward_d_browne@yahoo.com">edward_d_browne@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>Has anyone seen the book "Linux Network Security"<br>by Peter G. Smith? Can you recommend it? I stumbled<br>across it, and it seems possibly to be what I'm looking<br>
for, a practical book with emphasis on protecting your<br>home (linux) network from the big, bad world outside.<br>If you have other recommendations along those lines,<br>I'd be happy to hear them.<br><br>Thanks very much - Ed<br>
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